Oil-sprinkling apparatus.



H. TOPPING.

OIL BPRINKLING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. o, 1900.

Patented Feb. 4, 1913.

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HOWELL TOPPING, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

3' orL-srnmKLme arraanrusl To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HOWELL .TOPPING, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oil-Sprinkling Apparatusfof which the following is a specification. a

y invention relates toimprovements in oil sprinkling apparatus and more particularly relates to the type used for distributing oil on roadways to prevent dust or for other purposes.

The main objectof my inventionis to provide an apparatus for sprinkling or distributing oil on roadways with means for controlling the amount of oil distributed'so that there will be no. waste or leaks.

' Another object of my invention is to provide an apparatus which can be readily con-' trolled so that only so much of a roadway as is desired may be sprinkled, thus avoiding useless consumption of fluid.

By my invention I provide the distributer with interior valves for controlling the supply of oil to the roadway, thuspreventing leaks around the openings and also dispensing with the use of packing which is necessary when ordinary gates are used to control the oil openings. I also prefer to employ a deflector against which the oil strikes after leaving the distributer through the discharge openings, as th and gently distributes face of the road, preventing damage thereto and the oil being more evenly distributed than if itwere allowed to strike the road in I the first instance.

of which is well To these ends my invention consists in the combinations, arrangements of parts and details of constructlon hereinafter e oilis spread outitself over the sur-v more par-- ticularly described and then specified in the clalms.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 illustrates in elevation and partial section,

an end View of a tank vention applied thereto. I elevation and partial section of the end the tank wagon shown in Fig. l.

y invention may be applied to a wagon constructed practically along the lines of the ordinary water-wagon, the construction known and therefore any detailed description thereof is dispensed with herein except to state that 1 indicates the supply tank wagon having my in- 1 Fig. 2 is a sidef carried by the road preferably supported from the suitably mounted on and,

the said tank in the present case being adapted to carry a supply of the'kind of oil it is desired to distribute over the roadway;- crude oil being the character of oil usually employed for this purpose.

indicates the distributing cylinders or tanks of which thereranged end to end and each independent .Of the other in its operation. The cylinders are closed by the heads 3, suitably. secured to the cylinders,-'in any desired manner. .A plurality of openings 4,

gular, are formed in the walls. of the cyl- 'llldI'S and at or near the-bottom thereof. The distributing cylinders are connected -with the main supply tank 1 by a feeder pipe 5 and-branches 6 from said feeder toeach of the distributers employed. Mounted within thedistributing cylinders '2 is the valve mechanism for controlling the open-v ings 4, said valve mechanism preferably consisting of a number of separate valve arms 7 carrying imperforate valve'sectors as shown, one for each opening 4' and all mounted on a common valve, spindle or are preferably two ar-.

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wheels of the wagon,

shaft 8 longitudinally disposed in said cyl- I inders and journaled in bearings in the heads 3.

The distributing cylinders fare. main frame of the wagon or ca'rriage'by the braces 9 and the ends of the valve spindle or shaft 8 project from the heads 3 and have levers or crank arms 10 secured to said projecting ends, the levers being pivotally connected together at their outer ends by a rod 11.

'12 indicates an operating lever located at 7 any desired part of the wagon and by means 7 are rotated to permit the oil to pass through the openings 4. The operating lever 12 is SGCIIIGd'tO an arm 13 j of which the valves keyed to a rock shaft 14, said rock shaft beoperating lever 12 is provided for each distributer employed. A pawl 18 secured to the lever 12 cooperates with a toothed segment 19 mounted on a fixed part of the apparatus in proximity to the operating lever by means of 1 mg mounted in supp rts.'15 toga which the operating lever and l assisted distributors, ll supply, by preference,

therefore the valves 7 can be locked in any desired position.

20 indicates a deflecting plate secured to the outer periphery of the cylinder 2 and in such position that it will be below the openings 4 in the cylinder and at a short distance therefrom, the purpose of which is to deflect the oil discharging from the open ings and to cause it to distribute itself over a greater areathan if the oil passed direct from the openings to the road. In this operation it will be seen that the plate 20 acts purely as a spreader upon which the stream of oil from the openings in the distributer is received and spreads out over the surface of the deflector by an action which may be properly characterized as a capillary action, in a measure by gravity, and that there is no break up of the stream by pure impact owing to the fact that the openings are in immediate roximity to the plate, and the stream is de ivered in a substantially unchanged form and solidity at the surface of the spreader plate. It will be further seen that the loweredge of this spreader plate is free and that the spread. out sheet of oil may therefore flow freely in its spread out form over said edge and that it is not confined in any way or causedto back up into a pool and then delivered from said pool over the edge.

The operation of the apparatus will be obvious. When the operating lever 12 is in the position shown in Fig. 2 the openings 4 will be closed by the valves 'Y. On moving the lever 12 the valves are rotated through the rock shaft le and the links and levers as heretofore described and the valves are locked in any position to give the desired amount of opening through which the oil can pass by the pawl 18 engaging the teeth in the segment 19.

It will be understood that my invention might be carried out by employing more or less than the two distributing cylinders shown and described and that a single valve might be employed to operate on all the openings without departing from the spirit thereof.

If it is desired to shut 0d the supply of oil from the distributing cylinders 2 when the apparatus is not in use or for any other reason it is desired to keep the oil from the a gate valve or valves located in the pipe connections between the distributor and the supply vided with'a series of noaaoae tank 1. In the drawings this gate valve is shown as located in the pipe 5 and indicated it will be seen that in my construction, the oil from a supply tank instead of being delivered into one single distributor is branched out into a series of them so that in traveling over uneven ground the elevation of one side or end of the wagon considerably above the other will not substantially affect the even distribution of whole surface to be covered, as would be the case if the one distributer is employed, in which latter case the oil would principally escape from the depressed portion of said single distributer and the whole portion of the road-bed under the elevated end would receive no oil.

What I claim as my invention is:

' 1. In an oil sprinkling apparatus, the combination with a supply tank of a distributer cylinder connected with said tank and provided with openings through which the oil is adapted to pass, a valve spindle passing longitudinally through said distributer, crank arms secured to the respective ends of said spindle outside 'tlie'cylinder heads, a connecting rod connecting said arms, a rock shaft and operating lever, arms projecting therefrom and links extending from said arms to the said connecting rod,

'2. In an oil sprinkling apparatus, the combination with a supply tank, of a plurality of separate distributers connected to said supply tank through a common supply pipe, each of said distributers being pro perforations through which the oil is adapted to pass, independent valve mechanism prising a valve shaft passing longitudinally through the distributor and terminating outside the distributer heads, crank arms socured to the respective terminals of said shaft, a rod connecting said crank arms, an operating lever, a rock shaft to which said lever is connected, and links extending from said rock. shaft and connected to the rod joining the crank arms.

Signed at New York in the county of New York and State of New York this 8th day of March, A. D, 1909.

HULL TOPPING.

Witnesses:

linens Lnrnowrrz, EDWARD M. J LLINEK.

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